Conservative icon Paul Weyrich dies

[blueclown]

Source: Politico

Paul M. Weyrich, 66, who helped found the Heritage Foundation and at one time was one of Washington's most visible conservatives, died this morning. At his death, he was president and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation.

Heritage announced this morning: "Paul M. Weyrich, chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation and first president of The Heritage Foundation, died this morning around 1 a.m. He was 66 years old. Weyrich was a good friend to many of us at Heritage, a true leader and a man of unbending principle. He won Heritage’s prestigious Clare Boothe Luce Award in 2005. Weyrich will be deeply missed. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, including son Steve, who currently works at Heritage."

Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform wrote this tribute: "Paul Weyrich created institutions and networks that incubated new and old powerful policies and strategies to advance liberty. ... He brought leaders of various freedom impulses together. Most of the successes of the Conservative movement since the 1970s flowed from structures, organizations, and coalitions he started, created or nurtured. Paul also lived a balanced life with work, family and his faith. We will miss his puns and wisdom and hard work."

Kathryn Jean Lopez of National Review Online, who had the first word of his passing, called Weyrich "a Washington conservative institution" and "a patriot who lived a long life serving his nation."


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Good riddance to bad rubbish.

:hi:

[atreides1]

1. Amen

Anyone who is lauded by Grover Norquist, isn't worthy of sympathy!

[peaches2003]

2. Used to see him on C-Span all the time

In the beginning days of C-Span he used to be a fixture on their call-in shows. A real SOB, nasty, obnoxious, without a heart or thought of anyone but himself and his cohorts. Wonder if he had a deathbed conversion like Lee Atwater and others? Good riddance is right. :evilgrin:

[AlbertCat]

7. Deathbed conversions....

....are rarely authentic. Usually made up by the people still alive in the room.

[Judi Lynn]

43. I saw the special on Atwater on PBS, and they mentioned he claimed to have "gotten religion"

and had been reading his Bible faithfully while in the hospital for treatment.

One of his personal friends revealed he had observed the Bible someone had brought Atwater was never taken out of its package in which it arrived.

[infidel dog]

26. Weyrich

I strongly doubt if the miserable old bastard was capable of a deathbed conversion. I wish no insult to his family, but do sincerely hope they bury him in an asbestos union suit for use beyond the river Styx. May his theocratic-fascist cronies join him there soon.

[WinkyDink]

3. There IS a God.

[boilinmad]

4. I'll second that.....

GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH !!!

[Somawas]

6. Pissing on the guy's grave is unseemly. Remember Paul Wellstone.

[WatchWhatISay]

41. Not if the only thing he ever did right

was to die.

[Gold Metal Flake]

5. In his own words....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GBAsFwPglw

"Now many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome — good government. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."

[UpInArms]

11. I'm putting on my dancing shoes

Weyrich's prolly sitting next to RayGun by the fire right now

[TygrBright]

8. His friends and family clearly valued him and will miss him. I wish them comfort...

...in their grief.

For the rest of us, I'm relieved (in a quiet, sober, appropriate kinda way) that we have one less well-funded ideological termite gnawing at the structure of our Constitution and our society.

judiciously,
Bright

[gratuitous]

9. Weyrich is what passes for a patriot in some circles

Hard to square the notion of patriotism with someone whose career and fortune was dedicated to subverting the bedrock principles of the United States.

[AlbertCat]

10. The Heritage Foundation!!!!

Now THERE"S a legacy to be oh so proud of! The Foundation's flunkies did a bang-up job running Iraq! And its alum are just the cream of the crop, aren't they?

[norepubsin08]

12. FUCK HIM I HOPE THE BASTARD ROTS IN HELL

anybody have the email for his son or the organization he works for---time to stick the knife in. I'm sick and tired of Obama's namby-pamby embrace your enemies bullshit...we won and to the victor go the spoils!!!

[saigon68]

13. a patriot who lived a long life serving his nation. = BULLSHIT

HE WAS THE PENULTIMATE FUCKING DRAFT DODGER

AND HATE MONGER

IF THERE IS A HELL HE CERTAINLY WILL FIT IN


In response to a 1999 controversy covered by the press concerning a group of Wiccans in the United States military who were holding religious rituals and services on the grounds of the bases they were assigned to, Weyrich sought to exempt Wiccans from the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment and bar them from serving the military altogether. Weyrich, as president of the Free Congress Foundation, led a coalition of ten religious right organizations that attempted a Christian boycott on joining the military until all Wiccans were removed from the services, saying:

"Until the Army withdraws all official support and approval from witchcraft, no Christian should enlist or re-enlist in the Army, and Christian parents should not allow their children to join the Army" ... "An Army that sponsors satanic rituals is unworthy of representing the United States of America" ... "The official approval of satanism and witchcraft by the Army is a direct assault on the Christian faith that generations of American soldiers have fought and died for" ... "If the Army wants witches and satanists in its ranks, then it can do it without Christians in those ranks. It's time for the Christians in this country to put a stop to this kind of nonsense. A Christian recruiting strike will compel the Army to think seriously about what it is doing." -- Paul Weyrich "'Satanic' Army Unworthy of Representing United States," Free Congress Foundation press release, June 9, 1999

[depakid]

14. Fortunately, he lived to see the utter and complete failure of his ideology

[Kolesar]

15. Obama, Pelosi, and thrown shoes were probably on his mind...

...in his last days.

It should be said that Heritage is not as grotesquely horrid as the American Enterprise Institute or the Bradley Foundation. I would put them midway on the continuum of RW message machines.

The "imperialist <--> some-good-points" message index.
AEI -- Heritage -- Cato

[Cronopio]

40. That's probably what killed him. His career was at an end. nt

[RaleighNCDUer]

16. That's "Conservative Icon Paul Weyrich Escapes Justice" - nt

[hlthe2b]

17. What killed him?

Sorry, but I really really hate the euphemisms around death.... If they do not wish to give cause of death based on family wishes--fine, say that.

[izquierdista]

19. Maybe it was an accident

And he drowned in the bathtub. :rofl:










That was cruel. But completely called for. :evilgrin:

[alfredo]

35. He died in bondage

[Binka]

29. The Rumor Is he Was Gay. Aids Quite Possibly.

Talk about a sick, pandering, sanctimonious, fucking, asshole. Dead at 66. Should have happened in earlier.

[seafan]

18. Paul Weyrich, 1980: "I don't want everybody to vote"

Conservative icon Paul Weyrich dies, December 18, 2008


Paul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote"--- Dallas, 1980

[pattmarty]

20. May the shitbag rot in Hell.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

21. Hooray!

Maybe this will start a trend of scumbag right wingers dropping dead.

[opihimoimoi]

22. Did he have AIDS??? Just askin???

[wellst0nev0ter]

23. Sorry For His Friends And Family

Other than that, I can feel the sun shining a little more brightly.

[NashVegas]

24. Lord Have Mercy On His Soul ....

[libnnc]

25. Was he the one who kept a framed frontpage of a newpaper

on his wall with the headline "FDR DEAD"

seemes like I read that somewhere

Anywhoo...

[tom_paine]

27. The population of the Lower Circle of Hell just increased by one

n/t

[musette_sf]

28. this is the only news

that has mitigated the sheer disgust i feel at someone who this bastard enabled into power, being featured at what was supposed to be OUR inaugural.

good riddance. hot under the collar yet?

[TankLV]

30. The world is a better place now...

it was worse off for him having been born...

[cosmicdot]

31. Another quote

"We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country." (John Soloma's 1984 book, Ominous Politics: the new conservative labyrinth, Hill and Wang, New York ISBN: 0809072955 0809001594)

Paul Weyrich ~ one of the architects of ultra-right; member of the Council on National Policy (CNP)

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Council_for_National_Policy

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/22/155525/061

CNP Board of Governors (1982; 1996); CNP Secretary-Treasureer Executive Committee (1984-85; 1988)
http://watch.pair.com/database2.html

[xxqqqzme]

32. Well, the details are depressing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weyrich

He was even a supporter of Dominionism. This was not a happy camper.

[tomg]

33. "I won't dance. Don't ask me"

And if you don't believe, just ask Fred and Ginger:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oSdBu0JSCE

[damntexdem]

34. I'm too busy to cry about it today.

Check back with me in a few centuries to see whether I want to mourn the bastard.

[Ian David]

36. Buh-bye, evil fucking dirtbag...

[FarLeftRage]

37. One worthless MOTHERFUCKER down...

Many more to go...

[lakercub]

38. If you can stand it

they had a dinner for him recently. Check out the people who saluted him. Oi. On the plus side, there is a lot of age in this group. With Falwell's death and now this, maybe we are seeing the end of these conservative nutcases. Hopefully their progeny won't be at all successful in hijacking government as these people have been.

http://www.weyrichdinner.org/

[liberaltrucker]

39. Enjoy Hell, asshole

Give my regards to Nixon, Falwell, Atwater, Hitler, ad nauseum.

Good riddance, indeed.

:applause:

[Hassin Bin Sober]

42. One can only hope his passing was painful and difficult.

[underpants]

44. Created the Heritage Foundation and helped create the Christian Coalition

I guess God didn't give him a chance at a third strike

Bye you miserable being